SCAPEGOAT by author/historian Joel Zemel, is a comprehensive history of the events leading up to the 1917 Halifax Explosion and the numerous legal proceedings which followed. Winner of the 2014 Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction, the book is available online from New World Publishing, amazon.ca, indigo.ca and 49th Shelf. In HRM: Carrefour Atlantic at Historic Properties in downtown Halifax and other select bookstores, as well as all major and independent book outlets throughout the four Atlantic Provinces. A Scapegoat talk in three parts can be viewed on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Scapegoat has also won the 2015 Bronze IPPY Award (Independent Publisher Book Awards) in the Canada-East Best Regional Non-Fiction Category.

SVP Productions (svpproductions.com), an active website since 1999, features Scapegoat, the extraordinary legal proceedings following the 1917 Halifax Explosion, a book by Joel Zemel; William Shakespeare's Sonnets on CD read by Walter Borden; a social history by A. D. Boutilier entitled The Citadel On Stage. Also, Nell Shipman (filmmaker), James Barry (fiddle player) and Elizabeth Styring Nutt (artist) along with jazz guitar information, resources and suggested listening.

HalifaxExplosion.net contains images and reading material related to the 1917 disaster, including early history of the Royal Canadian Navy, the RNCC and HMC Dockyard. Featured articles are by H. B. Jefferson, Rear-Admiral Bertram Chambers, Michael Dupuis, Janet Maybee, Garry Shutlak of the Nova Scotia Archives. Includes commentary on several re-discovered photographs of the explosion by Lt. Victor Montague Magnus.